Cathay Pacific flight makes emergency landing at Shemya air station
By Matthew Smith, KNOM - Nome | July 29, 2015
Eareckson Air Station, on Shemya Island. (Photo: US Air Force)
Updated 7/29/15 at 11:55 a.m.
A Cathay Pacific flight en route from Hong Kong to Los Angeles made an emergency landing at an Aleutian Islands military airport early Wednesday morning due to smoke inside the plane.
Ian Gregor, a spokesperson with the Pacific Division of the Federal Aviation Administration, says Flight 884 “declared an emergency and diverted to Eareckson Air Station in Shemya,” at the far